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title: What was the ultimate outcome for the Aged One's captive? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the ultimate outcome for the Aged One's captive? Exam question 4 of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

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What was the ultimate outcome for the Aged One's captive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ultimate outcome

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/425-pg22373-part17/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e4:1
# text = What was the ultimate outcome for the Aged One's captive?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the ultimate outcome |  |  |  | for the Aged One's captive | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He was sent on a long errand and never came back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e4:o1:1
# text = He was sent on a long errand and never came back
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | He |  | a long errand |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He was sent on an errand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e4:o2:1
# text = He was sent on an errand
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | He |  | a errand |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He was locked away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e4:o3:1
# text = He was locked away
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock away** | past · passive |  | He |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He was sent to hell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e4:o4:1
# text = He was sent to hell
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | He |  | hell |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hell=Destination |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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